U.S. Tested Terrorist Data Program Using Real People's Names
A CanWest News Service article by Randy Boswell, via Canada.com, reports that:
A damning privacy audit of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's "data-mining" activities has found tests conducted on a new computer program designed to identify potential terrorist suspects used real names and birth dates of people travelling across the U.S.-Canada border instead of dummy data.More here.
Concerns about DHS's testing of its ADVISE data analysis system have dogged the agency since March, when the congressional Government Accountability Office first identified possible privacy violations.
"Like other data-mining applications, the ADVISE tool could misidentify or erroneously associate an individual with undesirable activity such as fraud, crime or terrorism," the GAO said in a report at the time.
posted by Fergie @ 9/06/2007 07:01:00 PM
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